Cycling At Langkawi

Cycling at Langkawi is probably not your first thought when you think of Langkawi. Langkawi is well known for its beaches, diving, playing golf and maybe for exotic dinners but its not known for cycling.

No doubt, bicycling at Langkawi is a challenge. For many people the heat, in the shadow, 32°C to 36°C is too much. For me, pranaya, sas, carissa, noble and jim, it's fine. Joseph and yuli preferred riding a motor bike. Locals and foreigners alike will think we were crazy. However, a bicycle can bring you to some awesome places.

I remember bicycling this road for the first time and thought: "is this now the "beautiful" Langkawi?" You may think the same but the best is yet to come. Our bicycle brakes were not that good, and twice my bicycle’s chain came out (fixing that chain when the heat was directly on top of me made me think that I should quit).

Let me surprise you by letting you know that we cycled around 50 kms, this was one amazing kunji stuff we did hahahaha.

Langkawi has a kind of circle road around the island. I say, "a kind of" because it is not really a circle road. The north west area is not accessible and in the north east corner the hills are still mostly jungle.

It's a nice ride to Seven Wells, with some serious but short hills. Just before the Oriental Village you will have a nice view from above over the Harbor.

Going around on bicycle is however very rewarding (like a pain in the ass haha but it got ok the next day after a really nice full body massage, yeah! Sas got over excited as he entered the spa LOL). And yes, cycling at Langkawi will release some additional sweat due to the tropical heat, you will see more then sitting in a taxi or even on a motorbike.

If you decide to go cycling at Langkawi, bring enough water. Especially if you are not used to cycle. But it is worth the effort and the waterfalls will refresh you.

Assume that because you can see other cars – cars can’t see you,
Having no Lights (not even street lights),

Cycling at night I feel like there are so many accidents waiting to happen.

Guess what! We Kunji fellows came back cycling from Seven Wells to pantai cenang at night.

There were many other fun part of our trip which I am really gonna miss like playing football on the beach, diving into the sea, go karting, breakfast at Breakfast Bar, dinner at Tomato and drinking a lot at Chillout Bar at night.

An epic journey of the bottle

2 years ago, when I was a high school student, I put a letter in a bottle, sealed it up, and dropped it in the Bay of Bengal, off the Sundarban coast. It was kind of an experiment. In the letter, I appealed to whomever came across the bottle to contact me and let me know where in the world it showed up. Amazingly, someone did.

About 27 or 28 months after the bottle was dropped, I heard from someone (a marine science teacher) in Manakara, Madagascar. The letter had made its way across the Indian Ocean and washed up on the shores of the Manakara, found by a 17-year-old and his Dad while out for a stroll. I never expected the message to be found.